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by CodesInChaos
2463 days ago
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The gravity field of a spherical object only depends on its mass and not its density/radius. So for the Roche limit only the density/radius of the object at risk of breaking apart (called minor object on wikipedia) (earth) should matter, not the one of the major object (black hole). Wikipedia gives the formula d=R_m*(2m_M/m_m)^{1/3} which matches that intuition. |
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So plugging in numbers you get 2.15 times the radius of Earth, which becomes 13 750 km.
For comparison, Earth-Moon distance is approx. 400 000 km.